Why do liberals love trains?

[mriddick]

Here in Ohio there is a debate going on over a light rail system between PA, OH and IN, the dems are really pushing it even though no rail system in the US makes money (actually only 2 world wide make money) and studies show it would take gas at $9/gal before most people would use it. I've heard this same debate going on in places I've lived such as TN and KY as well. Is it just a desire to control everyone's movement or what?

[bgummer]

I think the libs just like to watch people slave on the rails...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2W1lK7P-I

[cciota]

We have the same thing going on up in Raleigh. They want to put some high speed rail in from Charlotte to DC that will go through Raleigh. Nobody wants the damn thing but they are dead set on building it.

[chiak47]

There used to be light rail in almost all cities....They tore the tracks up.

http://www.thetransportco.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/milwaukee526618.jpg

[skorpion]

The socialists want to use trains as vectors to spread liberal city-slickers further into the surrounding areas, sort of like how a cancer tumor eventually releases undifferentiated cells into the circulatory system to spread to other sites of the body and multiply. The similarities between liberalism and cancer are quite astounding. Undifferentiated cells have no essential use (other than for the growth of an embryo), but they rapidly multiply and hog the blood supply from the differentiated cells that actually have jobs and need and use that blood supply.

Just a thought. :D

[Integratedj]

Just look at the Phx Light fail system if you want to see the future of that little idea. Great way to take drunks home from the bar for free, Move criminals from the ghetto into downtown for free, and destroy 1-2 vehicles a month through light fail operator error. All of that can be yours and the gain is a few paying passengers that hopefully aren't carrying a fresh box of shit to smear around on the ride downtown.


The light fail is a fucking joke, and the biggest waste of money I have seen in Arizona ever.

[mriddick]

The socialists want to use trains as vectors to spread liberal city-slickers further into the surrounding areas, sort of like how a cancer tumor eventually releases undifferentiated cells into the circulatory system to spread to other sites of the body and multiply. The similarities between liberalism and cancer are quite astounding. Undifferentiated cells have no essential use (other than for the growth of an embryo), but they rapidly multiply and hog the blood supply from the differentiated cells that actually have jobs and need and use that blood supply.

Just a thought. :D

I've noticed that over the years, people move out into the country to live the good life they see out there. However once there they start to change the surrounding area to "improve it" and get some of what they left in the new enviroment only to recreate the same problems. So the ones who can move again and the process starts all over again. This happens in alot of ways from nonreligious types moving to the bible belt to liberals moving to low tax places.

[Warhog01]

It's all about "planned sustainable communities" when they all cam lament about their carbon footprint, force people to live in high density housing, promote mass transit so the can be like socialist europe. This will also give them power to "condemn" land at will for the public good, this is also a payoff to big union labor.

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/

It's all part of a agenda

[El Laton Caliente]

Houston wasted millions on it. Most of the light rail trains run with only a handful of passengers, nearly empty.

[nfa1934]

Liberals despise the independence fostered by individual transportation.

[weevil]

There used to be light rail in almost all cities....They tore the tracks up.





Actually they're still there in a lot of places, they simply paved over them.


Every now and then when they're doing roadwork or there's a really nasty pothole here in our town you'll see the old cobble stone roadway with the trolley tracks still in it under the pavement.

[Charliebravo]

I think it's as simple as just wanting someone else to pay for their transportation.

[blacksheep]

Liberals are assholes.:holy-sheep:

[davepool]

Just look at the Phx Light fail system if you want to see the future of that little idea. Great way to take drunks home from the bar for free, Move criminals from the ghetto into downtown for free, and destroy 1-2 vehicles a month through light fail operator error. All of that can be yours and the gain is a few paying passengers that hopefully aren't carrying a fresh box of shit to smear around on the ride downtown.


The light fail is a fucking joke, and the biggest waste of money I have seen in Arizona ever.


And this thing is still being built.They are in the process of tearing up 19th ave south of dunlap so they can extend it a few more miles,HUGH waste of money.
What really pissed me off when this shit started was the fact that the trains were made in japan WTF we can't build trains in this country anymore?

[63DH8]

It's the liberal politician's way to prove they're are doing something to take care of a problem while not actually doing anything to solve the problem. Many liberal politicians do this to justify their jobs. Maybe I should say both liberal and so called conservative politicians do this. in some cases, the solution causes more problems than the original situation caused. That way, they can say they need to be re-elected that much more.

[mriddick]

In all the places I've lived it's the liberals pushing the trains, I've not heard any conservatives push them. It might be different in other parts of the country...

[AKTexas]

I feel let down by this thread...

No crude remarks about how the liberals love to run trains on the lonely plebs.

[mriddick]

I feel let down by this thread...

No crude remarks about how the liberals love to run trains on the lonely plebs.

Thread killer :)

[johnbob]

Liberals despise the independence fostered by individual transportation.

Thi is the correct answer.

I ride the local commuter train to my new job 60 miles away.

If I didn't ride the train I wouldn't have been able to take the job.

I don't like the train, but it saves me at least 175 bucks a month.

So, as a conservative, I'll save my money and ride the train.

By the way, no highway pays for itself. New Mexico has counties wiht only 1200 people in them and a couple of hundred ,iles of paved or improved dirt roads.

Who do you think is paying for those?

[AKTexas]

Thread killer :)

Tells the truth more than the rest of the replies.Really does say it all.

[Dr_Scholl]

We have the same thing going on up in Raleigh. They want to put some high speed rail in from Charlotte to DC that will go through Raleigh. Nobody wants the damn thing but they are dead set on building it.

Y'all too?! They've been trying to build a light rail in Norfolk for the past 5 years or so and now they want to try and extend it into Virginia Beach even though NOBODY wants it. It's behind schedule and millions over budget and they still won't let it go. People here in Virginia Beach especially don't want it because we don't want all those ghetto fuckers from certain parts of Norfolk down at our oceanfront.

It's just amazing that with all the other shit going on around here with traffic and transportation and our officials are focusing on this useless shit.

[JVD]

They have some high speed rail crap here in WI too. Outgiong Govornor asshat Doyle approved the project and started it before the election, and our Governor-elect Scott Walker is gonna get stiffed with paying back the $100,000,000 that has already been used on the project should he choose to abandon the project.

[chiak47]

They have some high speed rail crap here in WI too. Outgiong Govornor asshat Doyle approved the project and started it before the election, and our Governor-elect Scott Walker is gonna get stiffed with paying back the $100,000,000 that has already been used on the project should he choose to abandon the project.

I often wondered who in their right mind is going to ride that line....I mean once you leave Madison and get to Milwaukee then are you expected to walk or *sigh* ride a bus?

[dfariswheel]

It's a form of "Group Think".
Liberals just hate individuals. They like having groups, each group with it's own Elite leaders.
Groups are so much easier to deal with since the group decides issues, (with the Elites making the final decision). Since the entire group does things as a mass, it's much easier for the Liberal group leader to direct the group in directions the leader decides is the "right" direction.
In mass transit, the train only stops where the Liberal leader wants it to stop. This can be used to emphasize some area or activity, or degrade some area or activity.
As example, if the Liberal leaders decide a blighted (dangerous slum) needs to be revitalized the train will stop there instead of the nicer areas individuals might want to go to.

Individuals are much harder to deal with. It's like herding cats. Individuals tend to go their own way and make their own decisions. This is dangerous to Liberals because individuals often make the "wrong" decision (one the Liberals don't like).

Mass transit, (note the use of the word "mass" as in "the masses") goes only where the group wants to go, directed by the Liberal Elites.
The car is even worse than horses to the Liberals because the individual can mount up and travel wherever HE wants to go, when he wants to go, with no input from the Liberals.

Note that in any situation or program, there's always a key place for a Liberal to make a decision that can outweigh the desires of the group. It makes no difference if such a position is needed or even bad. The Liberal has to have a bottle neck filled by himself so he can decide what's right or wrong.

Mass transit is a Communist-Socialist-Progressive-Liberal system.
A car is an American Capitalist-free man's system.